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[Conjecture On] Only One Game

Mods: Paging about, I didn't find anything quite similar to this thread in this forum. If it's not appropriate, just lock it and I'll see about putting it somewhere appropriate.

Here's the scenario; you can call it a desert island scenario, or solitary confinement, or you're the sole survivor of a nuclear holocaust, whatever you prefer, but the root of it is this:

You get one video/computer game. Just one for the rest of your life. What game do you choose?

The rules; you get any one game, with any downloadable content or expansions available today. No other games, no internet connection. You have the necessary hardware to play the game, so any console, handheld, computer build or the like, and any required peripherals for said game are provided. Mods are, for the purposes of this exercise, not available (you could practically get unlimited playability from the original Half-Life, using 'em), but standalone expansions are okay.

MMOs, naturally, are right out.

So, pick your poison. It could be the game you view as the best, or the one with the most open-endedness, or even some guilty pleasure that you hide from the world under the auspices of seeming sophisticated.

I'm here to tell you about voting. Imagine you're locked in a huge underground nightclub filled with sinners, whores, freaks and unnameable things that rape pit bulls for fun. And you ain't allowed out until you all vote on what you're going to do tonight [. . .] So you vote for television, and everyone else, as far as your eye can see, votes to fuck you with switchblades. That's voting. You're welcome.

If I were to be placed in this apocalyptic wasteland where I only have one game, that game would need to be ToeJa and Earl. In a world of no music, I could deliver my own phat beats in the remix section, eternally sustaining my musical thirst. Every level can be random relinquishing a game's tired duty of getting old. Even if one finally memorizes all the levels, the game is still ra- HOLY SHIT LAWN MOWER MAN! And in such a desolate world, I could call Earl my friend (because I sure wouldn't pick him, that's for the lames).

I would go with the Sims 2, so I could vicariously live out the life of a normal guy who just builds an extraordinarily large and garish house and sleeps with every woman in the neighborhood (and, indeed, has additional girls conjured for him on a regular basis by an unseen overlord).
That is, of course, assuming I'm actually on a desert island or there has been a nuclear holocaust. If there are still other people around to interact with, I'd go with Civ 4 as well.

Yeah, it kinda is. It's pretty much entirely run on instances, though.
Ok then, Civ4 I guess. That, or Super Mario All-Stars (I was gonna say SMB3, the best videogame ever made, but then SMAS has it plus other games).